Human Development and Family Sciences
Educational Technology Program Resources
Program Resources
In 1998, the University of Delaware created an educational technology specialization within the Master of Education program in Curriculum and Instruction. Since its inception, the educational technology specialization has been a popular program that is growing in importance as all levels of education, especially K-12 schools, work to integrate technology across the curriculum.
In 2005, the University of Delaware elevated the educational technology specialization to the status of an M.Ed. concentration, not only to recognize the increasingly strategic importance of this field in our society, but also to respond to the students’ most frequent request related to this program, which is to have the title “Educational Technology” appear on their transcripts as evidence that the candidates completed a degree program in educational technology.
In 2015, the Faculty Senate approved a program revision that aligns the EDTC program with new educational technology standards issued by both ISTE and AECT.
Both the ISTE and AECT standards are informed by a knowledge base of books and articles from the scholarly literature on educational technology. This theoretical grounding in scholarship fits the School of Education’s view of its faculty and students as reflective practitioners who learn from the experience of others in developing their own reflective practice. Appropriate readings from the ISTE and AECT knowledge bases are assigned and interwoven throughout the various courses in the EDTC program.
In preparing their program performances, candidates who hold a basic teaching license follow the ISTE standards, which are assessed via rubrics through which K-12 teachers exhibit the knowledge, skills and dispositions needed to teach technology applications, support student learning and prepare other teachers to use technology effectively across the curriculum. Candidates from higher education, government and industry are assessed via rubrics based on the five AECT standards involving content knowledge, pedagogy, learning environments, professional skills and research.
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As first-place winner of the national EDUCAUSE award for campus networking, UD offers EDTC students one of the nation’s finest technological infrastructures. The award-winning Morris Library houses one of the country’s richest print and electronic research collections enhanced by a state-of-the-art multimedia production facility to which all EDTC students have access. The Maker Gym is part of a campus wide network of maker spaces providing students access to 3D printers, laser cutters, CNC mills, woodworking equipment, and textile machines. Students also have access to artificial intelligence and virtual reality services in the Center for Innovation in Lifelong Learning and Teaching.